It was a higher-paced match because of that.”Īngle did not factor into the decision in that match, as Mysterio pinned Orton to win his first World Heavyweight Title, capping off a story that featured a few tasteless moments centered around exploiting Eddie Guerrero’s death (namely Orton telling Mysterio that Guerrero was “in hell”). So we had to cut some stuff out and we actually sped the match up. “The only thing I’m thinking is ‘we’re not going to have enough time,’ and we didn’t. It’s really hard to cut stuff out because you have to have all three people in unison with each other knowing what’s going on next. It was a really difficult match to do, especially a triple threat match. We only had 9 minutes to wrestle in one of the co-main events of WrestleMania. So you add that together, that’s 12 minutes. So my entrance was 2 minutes, Randy’s was 2 minutes. “We had like 21 minutes for our match, including entrances, and the entrance was pretty long as it was. On his The Kurt Angle Show podcast, Angle discussed the circumstances that led to that triple threat falling short of the 10-minute mark (h/t to Fightful’s Gisberto Guzzo for the transcription):
Kurt Angle talks about his WrestleMania 22 triple threat match.
Given how abbreviated the match was, it isn’t surprising to hear that aspects of the match were left out to accommodate the time constraints.